A North Texas real estate service is helping families that no longer feel protected in Texas find homes in other states where they feel more secure. Brianna Hurley woke up the morning after the vote with a sense of urgent clarity: Her transgender child would never be safe in Texas. Trans kids were effectively banned from playing school sports and would be made to use bathrooms matching the sex on their birth certificates.
To Hurley, whose family was living at the time in a city south of Fort Worth, that vote was the last straw. Her trans son had already endured a lot at a relatively young age. Earlier that summer, while at a youth Pride picnic, protesters screamed at the LGBTQ+ kids in attendance that they were. Hurley had to warn her children about speaking to strangers after Texas GOP leadership directed authorities to investigate as “abusers” families of trans kids receiving gender-affirming care. A knock at the door could be Child Protective Services ready to take both of her boys away